GEORGE:Close your eyes and stand with me in Stratford-upon-Avon—an English market town of roughly fifteen hundred souls, ringed by fields, sheep, mud, and gossip. No phones. No streetlights. No “I’ll do it tomorrow” the way ...

Welcome to celebrate creativity - and this series is Conversations with Shakespeare.  Rhetorical triangle - part twoIn the previous podcast we talked about the three central parts of a rhetorical triangle - think of the rock gro...

I have decided to call a slight halt to episodes regarding Shakespeare's initial exposure to rhetorical devices for several reasons.  I wanted to concentrate on a few of the major rhetorical devices, and I have done so in the past few e...

Tonight’s device is one I love because it feels human.It’s called aporia.GEORGE:Master Shakespeare, I’m going to pronounce it and then stare at you like a student: uh-PORE-ee-uh.SHAKESPEARE (approving):Aye. A ...

SHAKESPEARE:Aye. The mind loves threes.Beginning, middle, end.Birth, life, death.Knock, knock, knock.GEORGE:I knew you’d do that—three examples to explain the “rule of three.”   SHAKESPEARE:W...